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Some say that Lilies are associated with Saint Anthony to highlight his
purity (virginity) as we also find with saints like Catherine of Siena.
From Anthony of Padua: Saint of the People: His Life, Legends, and Popular
Devotions, edited by Jack Wintz, OFM (Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger
Press, 2005):
"The expression of piety is believed to have it roots in 18th Century France
following the French Revolution. The Franciscans had been expelled from
Corsica and the church abandoned. Yet people came to the church for an
annual observance of the feast of Saint Anthony on June 13. One year, some
months after Anthony's feast, a man wandered into the church and found
lilies from the celebration still fresh
The custom of blessing lilies is another of those approved by Pope Leo XIII.
The prayer of blessing asks for the grace to preserve chastity, peace and
protection against the evil one."
I saw a statue in New Albany, Indiana, that showed Anthony with three of his
main symbols (usually he had only one): he was holding a book (study of
Scripture and preaching), the child Jesus (devotion to the Incarnation), and
the lilies.
Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv.
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do we know (apart from general purity) why Anthony is associated with
lilies? we had a rather sweet ceremony at Mass yesterday where the priest
blessed some lilies that, I assume, were to be put before his statue.
Rosemary Hayes
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 13. June
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Yesterday (13. June) was the feast day of:
> > 3) Anthony of Padua (d. 1231). A. belonged to a noble family of
> > Lisbon. An Augustinian canon at that city's monastery of St. Vincent,
> > he studied in Lisbon and in Coimbra and was ordained priest before
> > transferring in about 1220 to the Franciscans. Upon entering his new
> > order A. took the the saint's name by which he is known (previously he
> > had been called Fernando or something similar). An exceptionally
> > effective preacher, A. was first sent as a missionary to Morocco but
> > soon returned to Europe on account of poor health. He preached against
> > heresy in Milan and in southern France and in 1227 was appointed
> > provincial for much of northern Italy, with his seat in Padua. Soon was
> > lector for the Franciscans at Bologna as well.
>
> Worn out by his efforts, A. resigned his offices in 1230. In 1231,
> shortly before his death at the age of thirty-six, he was preaching to
> great crowds at Padua. A.'s cult was immediate. He was canonized in 1232
> and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1946.
>
> The polyglot home page of Padua's Basilica del Santo (i.e. of A.) is here
> (the virtual tour is informative but the illustrations are a bit on the
> small side):
> http://www.basilicadelsanto.org/ <http://www.basilicadelsanto.org/>
> Exterior views:
> http://tinyurl.com/ysanaa <http://tinyurl.com/ysanaa>
> http://tinyurl.com/yobdbm <http://tinyurl.com/yobdbm>
> http://tinyurl.com/3x78o8 <http://tinyurl.com/3x78o8>
> High altar (not awfully good views):
> http://www.cbft.unipd.it/pdtour/pdpict/altare.jpg
<http://www.cbft.unipd.it/pdtour/pdpict/altare.jpg>
> http://tinyurl.com/ywhpy6 <http://tinyurl.com/ywhpy6>
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
> (Cetheus/Peregrinus lightly revised from last year's post)
>
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